
Discover the newest travel trends for 2025
Need a bit of inspiration for your next holiday? Here are the top travel trends to look out for in 2025, from sustainable holiday swaps to extreme day trips…
2025 is going to be a year of travel extremes.
On the one hand, travellers are working harder than ever to make their trips more sustainable, avoiding overcrowded destinations and travelling for longer, less frequently, and closer to home.
On the other, there's the emerging trend of the extreme day trip. Travellers are taking advantage of uber-cheap budget flights to city-hop just for the day, enjoying the thrill of visiting another country for a fraction of the price of a holiday.
Here are some of the top travel trends to look out for in 2025…
Swap out overcrowded holiday spots for 'destination dupes'

Locals in some of our favourite spots were more vocal than ever about keeping their homes free of overtourism – Canarians marched for water security, Barcelonians for rent controls and Venetians to limit cruise ships. Enterprising tourist boards are now actively recommending alternative travel spots to the ones considered over-visited.
In Venice, for example, they'll point you to Trieste, another beautiful Renaissance city just down the coast. In Belgium, you could skip the crowds in Brussels or Bruges and visit Ghent. And rather than head out for another Spanish beach break, why not try Albania's Adriatic Riviera, the Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria or one of the smaller Greek islands eager for visitors?
Extreme day trips
The exact opposite of green travel, the extreme day trip is just that. Take advantage of super-budget plane tickets to head overseas just for the day, or in some cases just for a pizza, a swim or a massage, then head home in time for bed.
When you can fly to Rome and back for £9 or Marrakech for £11, and it costs twice that just to get a taxi into town let alone enjoy a meal once you're there, it really can be tempting to hop on a plane and see the sights for a day. Some budget-conscious travellers are doing just that, thereby wringing every last drop of adventure out of a single day off and seeing a new country and culture.
Digital sabbatical – aka the Insta-detox
Get away from it all – work, social media, everything – by picking destinations with little or no data reception. That way, you can fully immerse yourself in nature, food, romance or the company of family and friends rather than trying to snap photos for the 'gram and keep on top of your work inbox.
Think Timor Leste, the southern Tunisian deserts or a Greek island monastery – where either you've picked your spot precisely because the wifi coverage is terrible, or you know you'll be forced to hand your tech over at the front desk as one of the conditions of entry.
Chill out on a cool-cation

Summers in holiday favourites like Greece, Italy and Spain are getting hotter and hotter, with tourists experiencing uncomfortable – and often dangerous – temperatures. Instead, beat the ever-accelerating summer heat, wildfires and other impacts of climate change by heading off to cooler climes.
Iceland is a great shout in the summer. Thanks to midnight sun the days are super long, so you've got lots of daylight to get out and explore, plus you can expect comfortable average highs of 12°C to 14°C. Still too warm for you? We headed to Lapland in November, which truly was a snow-covered winter wonderland, reaching as low as -21°C during our visit. Make a beeline to Rovaniemi to meet Santa and, if you're lucky, see the Northern Lights.
Frontier travel
There are lots of places we don't recommend because the FCDO says they're not safe. But for some adventurers that's the appeal – for them, heading into Ukraine, South Ossetia, Afghanistan or the Congo is just the sort of thing to write home about.
It took only days for the regime change in Syria to prompt one adventure travel company to offer trips there this spring, very much against FCDO guidance. For most travellers, that's going to be an adventure too far. But if you follow some adventure travellers on TikTok, you'll see them wandering the streets of Kabul or Brazzaville, where neither travel insurance nor the British embassy can help if anything goes wrong.
The top destinations for 2025
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